Improvement in metallic button-hole or clasp



" To all personsto whontthesepresents may come: i "Be it known that l, JEREMIAH R. LITTLE, of Ja# l lnied i gereist @wat @time JIJREMIAHR. LITTLE, or 'JAMAICA PLAINS, MASSACHUSETTS.

Lettersfatent No.`94,965, dated September 21, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN METALLIC BUTTON-HOLE on CLASP,

` The Schedule referred tuin these Letters Patent` and making part of the same.

maica Plains, of thecoun'ty'of Norfolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful But ton-Clasp; and do hereby-declare the same to be fully 'described in the following' specification, and represented in the accompanying drawing, which isa side view of it. V

Itis particularly intended to be lailixed to the' end of a suspender-strap, to constitute an elastic metallic button-hole or clasp, to embrace a button in the man- -ner in which anordinary buttou-hole does, when in engagement with such. f

The article is to be made of a piece of elastic wire of' the proper length. In constructing it, the wire,-

near its middle, is tobe bent around so as toform an elongated eye,.as shown in @with the two legs or parts of the wire crossing one another at the middle of the lower part of the said eye.

Next, the two legs are` to be bent down parallel, or

\ about so, with each other, and a little apart, and at or about at right angles with the eye.

Next, they are -to be crossed `on one another, as

f shown at @,and afterward bent around up to the eye a, infmannerv as represented at dd.

Finally, they are to be fastened at their extremities to the'bottom of the eye a, either by solder orother-` wise, (the whole being as exhibited in the drawing 1 so as to form a button-hole, c, with elastic or spring wsides..

, A person, by clasping the `two parts dclabetween the thumb and second finger of his hand, and pressing the said parts toward each other, will easily be able to expand the button-hole or opening c, so as to enable af button to be passed through it.

By removing the pressure of the thumb and finger from the parts d d', the sidesof thel button-hole will collapse or close,ou the eye or fastening of the bu tton.

The removal ofthe button-clasp from a button may be effected by first simply pressing together the parts d d', so as to extend the button-hole sulciently, and

next drawing the clasp off the button.

y The saidnew manufacture, though designed spe--v cially for suspender-straps', may also be used with "a- `rions other Straps, or articles which, when in use, may require to be buttoned to something else.

l claim as of my-invention the following, that is to say- The button-clasp, as made of elastic wire, or lts equivalent, bent or curved so as to form an expansive'lk eye or'button-hole, c, to operate substantially as set forth.

Also, a button-clasp, as made of elastic wire, or its equivalent, bent or curved so as to form an expansive leye or buttonfh'ole, e, to operate vsubstantially as set forth, and a loop or eye, a, for connecting the article to a strap.

` J. RUSSELL LITTLE,

Witnesses R. H. EDDY, S. PIPER. 

